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lily in her right hand, a tortoife being under her feet. The
White veftment denotes her chafte intentions; her veil, to hide
her face, intimates, that a virtuous woman ought rather to hide,
than to expofe her beauty. The lily alfo reprefents innocence
and Bafhfulnefs; and the tortoife, that a chafte woman mould
not go much abroad.
BASSO-RELIEVO, 1 a piece of fculpture, the figures of
Bass-relief, j which do not project far, or ftand
out from the ground with their full proportion.
M. Felibien diftinguifb.es three kinds of Baflb-Relievo's; in
the firft, the front figures appear almoft with their full Relievo;
in the fecond. they ftand out but one half; and, in the third,
much lefs, as in coins., vafes, &c. See RELIEVO.
B.C. Equ. ftands for Bartholomew Coriolanus of Bononia,Knt.
Mary BEAL, an Engiifh gentlewoman, born in Suffolk,
having learnt the rudiments of painting of Sir Peter Lely. She
drew after the life, and had great numbers of perfons of rank
fat to her ; efpecially the greateft part of the dignified clergy of
her time, an acquaintance fhe got by her hufband, who was
much in favour with that robe. She was little inferior to any
of her contemporaries, either for colouring, ftrength, force, or
life, infomuch that Sir Peter was greatly taken with her per-
formances, as he would often acknowledge. She worked with
a wonderful body of colours, was exceedingly induftrious, and
her pictures are much after the Italian manner, which fhe
learnt by having copied after feveral of the great mafters of that
country, whofe pictures fhe borrowed out of Sir Peter's col-
lection. She died at her houfe in Pall-mall, about fifty years
ago, being fixty-five years old, and lies buried in St. James's.
BEASTS. For drawing the form of any Beaft, begin with
your lead or coal, at the forehead, drawing downward the nofe,
mouth, upper and nether chop, ending your line at the throat.
Then viewing it again where yuu began, from the forehead
over the head, ears, and neck; continuing till you have given
the full compafs of the buttock, then mark out the legs and feet.
Viewing it again, touch out the breaft, with the eminency
thereof; laftly, finifh the tail, paws, tongue, teeth, beard, and
feveral fhadows.
In drawing Beafts, you muft be well acquainted with their
fhape and action; without which you will never perform any
thing excellent in that kind : And here, if you draw it in an
emblem or the like^ you ought to fhew the landfcape of the
country natural to that Beaft.
As to the colouring of Beasts.— r. Sheep, lay with a thin
white, fhaded with indigo and foot, and heightened with white.
2. Hogs, lay with brown oker, (haded with foot, and
D 2 height-
lily in her right hand, a tortoife being under her feet. The
White veftment denotes her chafte intentions; her veil, to hide
her face, intimates, that a virtuous woman ought rather to hide,
than to expofe her beauty. The lily alfo reprefents innocence
and Bafhfulnefs; and the tortoife, that a chafte woman mould
not go much abroad.
BASSO-RELIEVO, 1 a piece of fculpture, the figures of
Bass-relief, j which do not project far, or ftand
out from the ground with their full proportion.
M. Felibien diftinguifb.es three kinds of Baflb-Relievo's; in
the firft, the front figures appear almoft with their full Relievo;
in the fecond. they ftand out but one half; and, in the third,
much lefs, as in coins., vafes, &c. See RELIEVO.
B.C. Equ. ftands for Bartholomew Coriolanus of Bononia,Knt.
Mary BEAL, an Engiifh gentlewoman, born in Suffolk,
having learnt the rudiments of painting of Sir Peter Lely. She
drew after the life, and had great numbers of perfons of rank
fat to her ; efpecially the greateft part of the dignified clergy of
her time, an acquaintance fhe got by her hufband, who was
much in favour with that robe. She was little inferior to any
of her contemporaries, either for colouring, ftrength, force, or
life, infomuch that Sir Peter was greatly taken with her per-
formances, as he would often acknowledge. She worked with
a wonderful body of colours, was exceedingly induftrious, and
her pictures are much after the Italian manner, which fhe
learnt by having copied after feveral of the great mafters of that
country, whofe pictures fhe borrowed out of Sir Peter's col-
lection. She died at her houfe in Pall-mall, about fifty years
ago, being fixty-five years old, and lies buried in St. James's.
BEASTS. For drawing the form of any Beaft, begin with
your lead or coal, at the forehead, drawing downward the nofe,
mouth, upper and nether chop, ending your line at the throat.
Then viewing it again where yuu began, from the forehead
over the head, ears, and neck; continuing till you have given
the full compafs of the buttock, then mark out the legs and feet.
Viewing it again, touch out the breaft, with the eminency
thereof; laftly, finifh the tail, paws, tongue, teeth, beard, and
feveral fhadows.
In drawing Beafts, you muft be well acquainted with their
fhape and action; without which you will never perform any
thing excellent in that kind : And here, if you draw it in an
emblem or the like^ you ought to fhew the landfcape of the
country natural to that Beaft.
As to the colouring of Beasts.— r. Sheep, lay with a thin
white, fhaded with indigo and foot, and heightened with white.
2. Hogs, lay with brown oker, (haded with foot, and
D 2 height-